Publishing Water Information

The Water Act 2007 (the 'Water Act') requires the Bureau to collect and disseminate water information to the public in easily accessed ways. The Bureau's policy is to make this information available for everyone's benefit so that it can be widely reused. To ensure wide reuse of water information — and that the data suppliers copyright is protected — the Bureau of Meteorology recommends that data suppliers use the Creative Commons Attribution Australia 2.5 Licence (the 'Creative Commons Licence') to cover all data that they provide under the Water Regulations 2008.

The Creative Commons Licence gives the community permission in advance for using water information, without having to contact the supplier directly. The Creative Commons Licence allows anyone to use the water information in a manner convenient to them, provided that they acknowledge the original data supplier. The original data supplier will generally be the person or organisation that gave the water information to the Bureau.

Licensing my water information under the Creative Commons Licence

The Bureau will write to all organisations named in the Water Regulations and include a form to enable organisations to license their data under Creative Commons. If you would like to license your data under the Creative Commons Licence now, email b.moran@bom.gov.au